Soo... does anyone know if this means what I think it does???

[axolotl-lan.livejournal.com]

See, I was picking up myself some Spidey bondage when this advertisement image screams out at me and I should really scan it but I just photographed it and here you all go...

If this winds up being a screw around involving Us. agent I will whine. That would be about all I could muster.

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[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I'd rather have a good story about Steve's return later, that a shitty one now.

I'm more like a fanboy I suppose - I don't care how it's done, I just want him back as soon as possible. Inexplicable glowing pod on the ocean floor a la Jean Grey would be fine by me.

The other disappointing thing about the whole Fake!Bucky!Cap storyline is that it's ruined Bucky for me. I used to really like Bucky and Winter Soldier, but now I'm with those fanboys who resent him and want hom to die in a fire. Anything, just as long as he gets the hell out of a costume that no one but Steve will ever have the right to wear.

Much as I once liked him, characters like Bucky!Cap/Winter Soldier are a dime a dozen (oooh, I'm violent. Oooh, I'm an assassin. Ooooh, I have dark, broody angst and guns, like the Punisher's mini-me), but Steve is something much more unique (plus, he doesn't need guns to kick ass).

It probably doesn't help that I loathe legacies in general with a burning passion. Putting a different character in a dead character's costume sends the massage that the costume is all that mattered, and that the characters are interchangeable and disposable. It's a sign that the writers don't really respect the characters or the fans. It's also a DC tradition, not a Marvel one, and the relative lack of legacies was something I previously respected Marvel for and one of the reasons I always preferred them to DC.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Much as I once liked him, characters like Bucky!Cap/Winter Soldier are a dime a dozen

Oh, absolutely. They're seriously popular though, and easy to write, which is why writers so often fall back on them.

Steve is most definitely the more interesting character.

It probably doesn't help that I loathe legacies in general with a burning passion.

Once in a while it's done well, but more often than not, it's pretty egregious. I'm not a legacy person either and that's been one of the things I've disliked in DC. Black Canary is imho an example of how to do it right - make the characters distinct, but respectful of each other and don't trash one of them in order to promote the other.

One thing Bru has done right is always respect the Steve part of Captain America.

But I totally understand where you're coming from.